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The widespread adoption of open-source software (OSS) has accelerated software innovation but also increased security risks due to the rapid propagation of vulnerabilities and silent patch releases. In recent years, large language models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Junxiao Han , Zheng Yu , Lingfeng Bao , Jiakun Liu , Yao Wan , Jianwei Yin , Shuiguang Deng , Song Han

As agent systems grow larger and more complex, there is an increasing need to formally verify them. Furthermore, it is often suggested that complex systems can be regulated using organizational models, imposing constraints on the agents in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Andreas Schmidt Jensen

Agentic security systems increasingly combine LLM planners with tools that can discover, validate, and report vulnerabilities. This creates an asymmetric control problem: the system should retain strong offensive capability inside an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Isaac David , Marco Guarnieri , Arthur Gervais

When autonomous vehicles encounter untrained scenarios, ensuring safety hinges on effective safety verification to prevent accidents stemming from unexpected model decisions. Reachability analysis, a method of safety verification, offers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Lingxiang Fan , Linxuan He , Haoyuan Ji , Shuo Feng

LLM-based agents increasingly coordinate decisions in multi-agent systems, often attaching natural-language reasoning to actions. However, reasoning is neither free nor automatically reliable: it incurs computational cost and, without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Feliks Bańka , Jarosław A. Chudziak

The Agentic Paradigm faces a significant Software Engineering Absence, yielding Agentic systems commonly lacking robustness, observability, and evolvability. To address these deficiencies, we propose a principled engineering framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiazheng Sun , Ruimeng Yang , Xu Han , Jiayang Niu , Mingxuan Li , Te Yang , Yongyong Lu , Xin Peng

As Large Language Model (LLM) agents become more widespread, associated misalignment risks increase. While prior research has studied agents' ability to produce harmful outputs or follow malicious instructions, it remains unclear how likely…

Behavioral evaluation is the dominant paradigm for assessing alignment in large language models (LLMs). In current practice, observed compliance under finite evaluation protocols is treated as evidence of latent alignment. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Igor Santos-Grueiro

Autonomous network management in Open Radio Access Networks requires intelligent decision making across conflicting objectives, yet existing LLM based multi agent systems employ homogeneous strategies and lack systematic predeployment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zeinab Nezami , Syed Ali Raza Zaidi , Maryam Hafeez , Louis Powell , Vara Prasad Talari , Mallik Tatipamula

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a core training stage in recent large language models (LLMs). Its reliance on non-public, high-value prompt sets raises concerns about unauthorized data use, creating a need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yule Liu , Heyi Zhang , Jinyi Zheng , Zhen Sun , Zifan Peng , Jiaheng Wei , Tianshuo Cong , Yilong Yang , Xinlei He

Explanations for AI models in high-stakes domains like medicine often lack verifiability, which can hinder trust. To address this, we propose an interactive agent that produces explanations through an auditable sequence of actions. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuhang Huang , Zekai Lin , Fan Zhong , Lei Liu

Automated evidence-based misinformation detection systems, which evaluate the veracity of short claims against evidence, lack comprehensive analysis of their adversarial vulnerabilities. Existing black-box text-based adversarial attacks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Mazal Bethany , Nishant Vishwamitra , Cho-Yu Jason Chiang , Peyman Najafirad

Trustworthy robot behavior requires not only high levels of task success but also that the robot can reliably quantify how likely it is to succeed. To this end, we present a first-of-its-kind study of confidence calibration in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Thomas P Zollo , Richard Zemel

While the most visible part of the safety verification process of automated vehicles concerns the planning and control system, it is often overlooked that safety of the latter crucially depends on the fault-tolerance of the preceding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Cornelius Buerkle , Florian Geissler , Michael Paulitsch , Kay-Ulrich Scholl

A new agent architecture called Limited Instruction Set Agent (LISA) is introduced for autonomous control. The new architecture is based on previous implementations of AgentSpeak and it is structurally simpler than its predecessors with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Paolo Izzo , Hongyang Qu , Sandor M. Veres

Attestation means providing evidence that a remote target system is worthy of trust for some sensitive interaction. Although attestation is already used in network access control, security management, and trusted execution environments, it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Will Thomas , Logan Schmalz , Adam Petz , Perry Alexander , Joshua D. Guttman , Paul D. Rowe , James Carter

LLM-based agents are becoming central to software engineering tasks, yet evaluating them remains fragmented and largely model-centric. Existing studies overlook how architectural components, such as planners, memory, and tool routers, shape…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Débora Souza , Patrícia Machado

We present Verified Multi-Agent Orchestration (VMAO), a framework that coordinates specialized LLM-based agents through a verification-driven iterative loop. Given a complex query, our system decomposes it into a directed acyclic graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xing Zhang , Yanwei Cui , Guanghui Wang , Wei Qiu , Ziyuan Li , Fangwei Han , Yajing Huang , Hengzhi Qiu , Bing Zhu , Peiyang He

Auditing the semantic properties of proprietary data creates a fundamental tension: verification requires transparent access, while proprietary rights demand confidentiality. While Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) ensure privacy, they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Antony Rowstron

Information Retrieval is shifting from passive document ranking toward autonomous agentic workflows that operate in multi-step Reason-Act-Observe loops. In such long-horizon trajectories, minor early errors can cascade, leading to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anushree Sinha , Srivaths Ranganathan , Debanshu Das , Abhishek Dharmaratnakar